Alex W. Widmer

Alex Werner Widmer (born May 1, 1956 in Zurzach ; † December 3, 2008 in Baden ) was a Swiss bank manager .

Life

Alex Widmer studied from 1981 at the St. Gallen University Economics and received his doctorate there in 1985 to Dr. oec. HSG. From 1982 he also worked at the Institute for Banking Economics.

In 1986 he joined Credit Suisse and after a year in the Capital Market Division, Zurich, moved to CS First Boston in New York, where he studied Bruce Wasserstein's investment business . From 1988 he worked for CS in Japan, among other things as deputy head of Japan. He worked there until 1996 when he was promoted to Managing Director and Co-Head Asia. He moved to Singapore . In 1999 he became CEO for the Asia-Pacific and Middle East region and also a member of the Private Banking Executive Committee . Widmer became Global Head of Private Banking and a member of the CS Group Executive Committee in 2002 and returned to Zurich. When he was transferred back from this position to the second tier in 2004, he left CS. In 2005 he joined Julius Baer Holding as CEO Private Banking. In 2007 he was promoted to CEO of Bank Julius Baer .

Widmer committed in 2008 on the night of December 4 suicide . After his wife's cancer death in March 2006, he left behind three orphans and a partner.

Works

Leo Schuster , Alex W. Widmer (ed.): Ways out of the banking and stock market crisis. Springer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-21106-3 ( online ).

Web links

Curriculum vitae ( memento of April 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of Alex W. Widmer on the Bank Julius Baer website
Claude Baumann, Peer Teuwsen : The way of the samurai. In: Die Zeit 8/2009 from February 12, 2009.

Individual evidence

↑ List of authors. Dr. Alex W. Widmer. In: springer.com, accessed on August 9, 2013 (PDF, p. 426)
↑ Claude Baumann: In the eye of the hurricane. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Die Weltwoche . 31/2008. @1@ 2

↑ Julius Baer's press release on the passing

↑ Bear President: Emotional letter to employees. (Tages-Anzeiger dated December 7, 2008) ( Memento dated December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Widmer, Alex W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Widmer, Alex Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurzach
DATE OF DEATH	December 3, 2008
Place of death	to bathe

[1] List of authors. Dr. Alex W. Widmer. In: springer.com, accessed on August 9, 2013 (PDF, p. 426)

[2] Claude Baumann: In the eye of the hurricane. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Die Weltwoche . 31/2008. @1@ 2

[3] Julius Baer's press release on the passing

[4] Bear President: Emotional letter to employees. (Tages-Anzeiger dated December 7, 2008) ( Memento dated December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )